The Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago is pleased to announce a call for artwork created by BA & BFA students graduating in 2011 in the US. Interrogating the Future of Interdisciplinary Practice will be juried by Dominic Molon, Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.Entries are sought that demonstrate interdisciplinary risk taking, experimentation and conceptual rigor. Visual Art, Media, Time-Based Work, Internet-Based Work, Sculpture, Installation, Sound, Writing, and Performance are eligible. The exhibit will be at Columbia College’s Arcade Gallery on Michigan Avenue, in the heart of Downtown Chicago for a month-long show in July 2011. An exhibition catalog will be produced.There is no entry fee, but students will apply via SlideRoom, which charges $5 to submit an application – similar to the expenses one would incur for postage and media, but without potential for delay. The deadline for submissions is May 1st.Full Details about the Call for Proposals is online.

Paul Catanese (b. 1975) is a hybrid media artist, Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College Chicago, Director of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Program, ISEA International Board Member, and President Emeritus of the New Media Caucus, a College Art Association Affiliate Society. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2000 in Art and Technology Studies. Prior to his faculty appointment at Columbia College Chicago, Catanese was an Assistant Professor of New Media at San Francisco State University (SFSU) from 2003-2008; he has also taught at SAIC, Harold Washington College and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Paul is the author of Director’s Third Dimension, a book on three-dimensional programming for interactive multimedia; and the co-author (with Dr. Angela Geary) of Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional, and Hybrid Techniques. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, La Villette, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE, ANIMAC, and the New Forms Festival. His work has been reviewed in Neural.it and Artweek. He has spoken about his work at festivals and conferences and has been a visiting artist to programs of art around the country including at the University of Kentucky, Washington State University and Bradley University. As a 2003/04 recipient of a Kala Art Institute artist-in-residence Fellowship award, he was able to explore various printmaking and bookmaking techniques and created a series of digital Cornell boxes for Gameboy Advance. Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including commissions for the creation of new artwork from Turbulence.org as well as Rhizome.org.